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The article discusses how history departments are increasingly engaging in collaborative discussions to reform their curriculum, focusing on improving pedagogical practices and making significant impacts on student learning. It highlights the influence of initiatives like the American Historical Association's Tuning the History Discipline project and the importance of data analytics in guiding curriculum changes. Despite challenges, such as declining majors and racial reckonings, departments have fostered collegiality and implemented innovative teaching strategies. The article underscores the value of fostering strong learning communities within departments and the potential of curriculum analytics to improve student retention and success. Overall, it expresses hope and collective commitment to enhancing history education despite current challenges facing the humanities.

Explores various impediments facing the academic labor movement, especially the resistance of tenured radicals, focusing on the experiences at Yale University. Discusses how graduate student organizing can jeopardize student-faculty relationships, affect chances for academic jobs, and create personal and professional tensions in many relationships. (SM)

The carotid bifurcation experiences a complex loading environment due to its anatomical structure. Previous in‐vivo material parameter estimation methods often use simplified model geometries, isotropic hyperelastic constitutive equations or neglect key aspects of the vessel, such as the zero‐pressure configuration or residual stress, all of which have independently been shown to alter the stress environment of the vessel wall. Characterizing the location of high stress in the vessel wall has often been proposed as a potential indicator of structural weakness. However, excluding the afore‐mentioned zero‐pressure configuration, residual stress and patient‐specific material parameters can lead to an incorrect estimation of the true stress values observed, meaning that stress alone as a risk indicator of rupture is insufficient. In this study, we investigate how the estimated material parameters and overall stress distributions in geometries of carotid bifurcations, extracted from in‐vivo MR images, alter with the inclusion of the zero‐pressure configuration and residual stress. This approach consists of the following steps: (1) geometry segmentation and hexahedral meshing from in‐vivo magnetic resonance images (MRI) at two known phases; (2) computation of the zero‐pressure configuration and the associated residual stresses; (3) minimization of an objective function built on the difference between the stress states of an "almost true" stress field at two known phases and a "deformed" stress field by altering the input material parameters to determine patient‐specific material properties; and (4) comparison of the stress distributions throughout these carotid bifurcations for all cases with estimated material parameters. This numerical approach provides insights into the need for estimation of both the zero‐pressure configuration and residual stress for accurate material property estimation and stress analysis for the carotid bifurcation, establishing the reliability of stress as a rupture risk metric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]